casey's review
Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories
by Italo Calvino
casey's review
Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories by Italo Calvino
casey's review
rating:
Each word written by Calvino is strategic. The impressive part is that this important fact seems not to be lost in translation. The real appeal of this book, for me, is that his characters are almost achingly real and non-glamorous, but the fact that these stories are set in a time and places so different from my own experience, they almost seem fantastic. Time and again, Calvino impresses with his ability to make the most simple circumstances come alive.
